Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 5 letters

addle

Limited data

No curated clues yet.

Use pattern search to check whether the word fits.

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈæ.dəl/Part of speech verbSorted addelStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
1A2D3D4L5E

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

A____

Definitions

  1. become rotten

Word origin

From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”).

Used in a sentence

  • addle eggs
  • Pan. Troilus! Why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg. Cres. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.
  • It was a feathered riddle; a mystery hatched out of an egg, and just as mysterious as if the egg had been addle!

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer0 curated clues

No curated clues for addle yet.

Related words